Cigarette smoking no longer on the downslide among U.S. teens. The number of teenage smokers has stopped dwindling and remains steady at 20 percent, four percent shy of the CDC’s goal of limiting teenage smoking to only 16 percent among high schoolers. The number had been slipping for years, but seems to have leveled off.

Harvard Medical School is using actors and ancient Greek plays to spark discussion about death and treating patients facing long, painful and eventually terminal illnesses. The plays are part of the school’s End of Life program and are designed to spark discussion among medical professionals and students on the ethics of treating this specific population.